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Feilding Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7, 30 September 1902, Page 2

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« Telegraph. Press Association. CoDyripbt London, September 29. Four thousand tin plate workers in Llanelly, Wales, have struck in favour of eight Hours shift. The Shipping Gazette believes that the Peninsula Shipping Company will shortly make Southampton instead of London the home port, owing to the deeper water. New York, September 29. the frhole of the North of Martinique, has been declared to uninhabitable, and the townships have been transferred to the Southern districts of the Island. -• The price of coal in New York is eighteen dollars per ton. Bucharest, September 29. The Roumanian Government contends that the Jews there are treated exactly the same as other aliens, none of whom were allowed to buy land. St. Petersburg, September 29. Six hundred and forty persons are being prosecuted for instigating the recent disturbances in the Charkoff and Poltava districts. Vienna, September 29. The body of Jellinek, the defaulting bank clerk, has been recovered from the Danube. Paris, September 29. Three earthquake shocks were felt at Moutiers. 1 Colonel St. Eemy and General Frater have been placed on half -pay for testifying that the orders transmitted to Colonel St. Eemy were civil and not military orders. The recent speeches of M. Pelletan, French Minister for Marine, have greatly irritated the Russian governing circles. Cairo, September 29. It is officially announced that Alexandria is infected with Asiatic cholera. Pekin, September 29. Sir Edward Satow has begun to transfer the Shanhaikwan-Pekin railway to China.